Quotes About History

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

Books are dead men talking.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.

I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

America is a white man's country.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.